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Yahuza Usman

Yahuzaishat

yahuza4ict

gmail.com

Best way to connect: Via email

Hausa Wikimedia User Group

Participating as: Indivudal

Nigeria • Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region

Preferred times: Saturday, Sunday (17 - 20 UTC)

Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per week

Languages: English, Hausa

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community

Areas of interests: Culture, heritage or GLAM, Education

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Organizer Lab

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Preferred way of learning: Share resources through emails / platforms …, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding • Financial planning and management • Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans • Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Designing learning /retrospective sessions • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Innovations in culture and heritage • Small editing events, campaign and contests

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.)

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Preferred way of sharing: Conduct formal training (develop courses), Sharing resources via email and/or resource sharing platforms

Organization skills: Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata • Handling data donations

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